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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense” (arstechnica.com)
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Linux people doing Linux things, it seems.

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Note that Rust does not "solve" memory management for you, it just checks whether yours is memory safe. Initially you might rely on the borrow checker for those checks, but as you become more and more used to Rust you'll start to anticipate it and write code that already safisfies it. So ultimately you'll still learn how to safely deal with memory management, just in a different way.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah all of the times I see Rust being described as "harder to learn" than C I just shake my head. It's like saying that it's easier to just fall off the cliff at the Grand Canyon instead of taking the path down. Any additional difficulty is because the language forces you to understand memory and pointers properly, instead of just letting you fuck around and find out.

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